The Riverside City Council’s development committee on Thursday, Sept. 17, will discuss a proposal to sell 3.17 acres on Merrill Avenue across from Riverside Plaza.

The committee meets at 3 p.m. in the council chambers at Riverside City Hall, 3900 Main St.

Huntington Beach developer Pelican Properties wants to buy the land and build a $26.2 million complex that would include 119 apartments and 8,000 square feet of commercial space. The city would have the land apparaised to determine a fair market price.

The Merrill properties were bought by the city’s former redevelopment agency for $6.2 million between 2005 and 2008. Officials had plans to develop a “restaurant row,” but it never progressed before the state ended redevelopment in 2011.

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